Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for asylum submitted before 28 June 2022 are awaiting processing.

The Home Office publishes data on asylum in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on applications awaiting an initial decision that were raised before 28 June 2022 can be found in table Asy_10a of the ‘asylum and resettlement summary tables’. The latest data relate to 30 June 2023. Data for 30 September 2023 will be published on 23 November 2023. Information on future Home Office statistical release dates can be found in the ‘Research and statistics calendar’.